Lesbian Economies Across Time @ The GLBT Historical Society | San Francisco

PANEL - The Business of Care: Lesbian Economies Across Time, exhibit opening at The GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco, Thursday, March 19th. Lesbian businesses have never been just businesses. They have been sites of creativity, survival, mutual aid, and collective imagination. This conversation emerges from Directory of Dreams: Bay Area Lesbian Economies and Radical Care, 1970–1995, an exhibition tracing the networks, businesses, and mutual aid infrastructures built by lesbian feminist communities across the Bay Area. The exhibit highlights bookstores, print collectives, galleries, service networks, and cafés as interconnected sites of survival and self-determination. From queer media networks to open mic nights, from public art to nightlife, today’s organizers continue to hold space, transfer knowledge, and cultivate the know-how required to access collective queer power.